Automobile crane and tip-car.



PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

P. J. HEA'LEY.

AUTOMOBILE CRANE AND TIP GAR.

APPLIUATION FILED JUNE 30. 1905.

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PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

P. J. HEALEY. AUTOMOBILE CRANE AND TIP OAR.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 30, 1905.

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By his Attorney 1 i i i i J fij'ldz INVENTORz rllll WITNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUTOMOBILE CRANE AND TIP-OAR.

Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Jan. 8, 1907.

' Application filed June so, 1905. Serial No. 267,715.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PATRIoKJ. HEALEY, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Boston, inthe county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Automobile Crane and Tip-Car, of which the following-is a s ecification, the same being a'full, clear, an exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to .a machine for movin weights, having two motions, one a direct ift and the othera horizontal one, and

also provided with means for dischargin the said weight, and in particular to a se -impelled vehicle adapted to be used primarily for excavating purposes and in which the load is suspended from a carria e or carrier that travels along an arm jointe at one end to the vehicle, the said vehicle being also provided with a dumping-bod ivoted to a platform mounted on a true in order that the said body may be tip ed or canted in order to discharge its load and it has for its object the production of a vehicle of the class described ,which will. be com aratively economical to manufacture an eificient and rapid in operation and. durable in practical use.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of arts, all of which will be hereinafterdescribe ,andspecificallypointed out in the drawing:1 which accompany and folrum a part of t s specification, and in w c Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a vehicle embody' this invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation o the same. Fig. 3 is a view in detail of the body of the dumping-car. Fig.

4 is a'view in detail, showing the interior of.

the cab. Fig. '5 is a view in elevation of the standard or pillar viewed from the interior of the vehicle. Fig. 6 is a similar view of a simplified form of construction of the same. .Fig. 7 is an elevation of the carriage or carrier. F 8 is a side view of the same.

iike letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views.

Referring particularly to the drawings, A denotes the truck or vehicle, which may con sist of an ordinary automobile truck provided with suitableimpelling means, as an electric motor B, and a source of power, as a storage battery-B. The truck also serves to movements of the load mag in the interior chambers or barrels of which are placed pistons of ordinary construction, e piston-rods f of which extend upwardl and serve to support a cross-head G. A b ock or head G is centrally mounted on the cross-head Gand is constructed and arranged to form a bearing for the rod H, se-.

cured to the channeled arm H and l g parallel with and a short distance a ove the same. The other end of the channeled arm H is jointed at h to a channeled slide-blockh, constructed and arranged to work back and forth on the track (1, mounted on the top of the cab D.

By means of the above construction'the end of the arm H ma be moved outwardly away from the vehic e or pushed inwardly toward the same at will, and the said arm may be also raised and lowered b respectively fillin the tubes or barrels of t e stand-. ards F wit compressed air or allowing the latter to esca e therefrom.

At the on of the channeled arm H is mounted a sheave h, and in the channel of the said ivoted arm H works a carriage or carrier the sheave H of which serves to support the rope J carrying the bucket j, the sea carriage being given a horizontal movement by means of the rope J, fastened to the same, which rope is passed over the sheave 7i? and then in a backward direction to the sheave h and thence downward to and 'drum K. By 0 crating the said drums K and K in the or ary. manner the following be secured: First by causing the drum to rotate in one direction the carrier H 'will be caused to travel outward'until it reaches the sheave h.

Then by operating the drum K the bucket j may be lowered, and, reversely, by causing rought to the center of the vehicle, at which point it may be upset or dischar ed.

The dumping-body L is provi ed at each side with a pair of trunniona 1, which hera rack f on the piston-rod f contained mally rest in supports e, fixed to the sides of the platform E, to which trunnions are attached ropes M, a pair of which are wound on each side of the vehicle around a horizontal shaft M, carr 'ng a pulley m, connected by a rope m wit the drum K.

The parts are so arranged that by operating the drum K the pulle m will be caused to turn and one shaft will be rotated, thereby lifting up one side of the dum ingbody L by means of the ropes M, an the door Z on the opposite side of the dumpingbody will thereupon swing outwardly on account of the tilting ofthe said dumping-body, the catch L" of the same having been previously unfastened. After the load has been i discharged the dumping-body may be low- I cred again to its normal position. B the use of a similar contrivance tlIB'OtlIGI SIdG of the d ing-body may be raised to any-angl'e requlred, thereb tipping or canting up the said body in or er to discharge the contents of the same on the other side of the vehicle.

Each of the standards or pillars F may be provided with a spring-dogf to engage with therein, and the said rod f may also have formed in the same a series of orifices f by means of which the piston-rodf may be kept at any height by the insertion of a pin in the particular orifice desired.

The frame of m apparatus, as stated, comprises a platform avi% upwardly-extendin parts consisting of the cabat one end an the standards F at the other end, and the said u wardly-extending parts serve to support t e crane or channeled arm H and also of the crane and the hoisting-rope M of the dumping-body are operated either independently or simultaneously by means of the common electric motor B.

I only claim in this application the inven- I tion embodied in the structure embracing the self-impelled vehicle provided with a common means for operatrn the hoistingropes, as the other features 0 the invention are claimed in my co ending applications, Serial Nos. 295,208 and 295,209, filed January 8, 1906.

As it is evident that many changes in the construction, form, proportion, and relative arrangement of parts might be resorted to Without departing from the spirit and scope of m invention, I would have it understood that do not restrict myself to the particular construction and arrangement of arts shown and described, but that such can es and equivalents may be substituted there or, and that What I claim as my invention is 1'. A vehicle-truck, a platform therefor, a frame, a dump device, a crane and a bucket, the frame ein constructed and arranged to support the ucket carried by the crane and also the dumping device, in combination with a common means to move both the bucket and dum ing device both up and down in a vertica direction and also in other directions.

2. A vehicle-truck, a frame, a dumping device, a crane and a bucket, the frame bein 4 constructed and arranged to support the ucket carried by the crane and also the dumping device, in combination with a common means to move indegendently both the bucket and dumping 'evice both u and down in a vertical direction and also 1n other directions.

In testimony of the foregoing specification I do hereby sign the same, in the city of Boston, count of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, t 1is 31st day of Ma 1905.

PATRICK HEALEY. Witnesses: I

F. A. FINN-ERTY, LEONARD S. COYNE.

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